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ACLU - In 29 states, it remains legal to fire people based on sexual orientation and in 38 states, discrimination based on gender identity remains legal.
LATINOS IN WORLD WAR II
CIVIL LIBERTIES
The ACLU has suffered a major hit as a major donor is no longer able to provide $19 million a year to the organization, blaming illiquidity thanks to his investments in alternative energy corporations. The Sierra Club will also lose $12 million a year.
MONEY & WORK
Reuters - The U.S. Conference of Mayors said cities reported a 26 percent jump in demand for hunger assistance over the past year, the largest average increase since 1991. Middle-class families as well as the uninsured, elderly, working poor and homeless increasingly looked for help with hunger, which was mainly fueled by unemployment, high housing costs and low wages. Just over three-fourths of the cities reported a jump in homeless families due to the recession and lack of affordable housing. Individual homelessness, on the other hand, was level or down in 16 of the cities.
ECOLOGY & NATURE
Reuters - As politicians and lobbyists try to thrash out a new climate deal in Copenhagen, experts in Tanzania say local land practices must increasingly take their share of the blame for the rapid shrinkage of the ice on Kilimanjaro's peak. According to one recent U.S. scientific study, the cap on Africa's highest mountain may disappear by 2033. "The forest itself is the key element in this. It completely affects the amount of rain running off the mountain," said Jo Anderson, director of Ecological Initiatives, an environmental consultancy based in northern Tanzania.. . . Anderson said forests that have disappeared in the past 30 to 40 years on Kilimanjaro's lower slopes -- cut down by villagers for charcoal and open farmland -- were just as much to blame as rising temperatures worldwide.
POLITICS
The Hill - Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's pollster in 2008. Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn. Burson-Marsteller won the contract to work on a public-relations campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television. Nearly $2.8 million of the contract was issued to Penn's polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, according to federal records.
ACLU - In 29 states, it remains legal to fire people based on sexual orientation and in 38 states, discrimination based on gender identity remains legal.
LATINOS IN WORLD WAR II
CIVIL LIBERTIES
The ACLU has suffered a major hit as a major donor is no longer able to provide $19 million a year to the organization, blaming illiquidity thanks to his investments in alternative energy corporations. The Sierra Club will also lose $12 million a year.
MONEY & WORK
Reuters - The U.S. Conference of Mayors said cities reported a 26 percent jump in demand for hunger assistance over the past year, the largest average increase since 1991. Middle-class families as well as the uninsured, elderly, working poor and homeless increasingly looked for help with hunger, which was mainly fueled by unemployment, high housing costs and low wages. Just over three-fourths of the cities reported a jump in homeless families due to the recession and lack of affordable housing. Individual homelessness, on the other hand, was level or down in 16 of the cities.
ECOLOGY & NATURE
Reuters - As politicians and lobbyists try to thrash out a new climate deal in Copenhagen, experts in Tanzania say local land practices must increasingly take their share of the blame for the rapid shrinkage of the ice on Kilimanjaro's peak. According to one recent U.S. scientific study, the cap on Africa's highest mountain may disappear by 2033. "The forest itself is the key element in this. It completely affects the amount of rain running off the mountain," said Jo Anderson, director of Ecological Initiatives, an environmental consultancy based in northern Tanzania.. . . Anderson said forests that have disappeared in the past 30 to 40 years on Kilimanjaro's lower slopes -- cut down by villagers for charcoal and open farmland -- were just as much to blame as rising temperatures worldwide.
POLITICS
The Hill - Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's pollster in 2008. Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn. Burson-Marsteller won the contract to work on a public-relations campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television. Nearly $2.8 million of the contract was issued to Penn's polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, according to federal records.
2 Comments:
"The ACLU has suffered a major hit"
The Innocence Project lost ten per cent of their budget when a major donor discovered Madoff had conned him.
In the past few years, both the ACLU and the Sierra Club seem to have become more obsessed with fundraising than action. There exists a causal relationship of the latter due to the former. With a focus directed towards larger singer donors, follows too, a subtle shift in priorities so as not to offend the interests of the deep pockets. Eventually there arrives a point where they have forsaken the values of their long standing core constituency. We've seen the same process occur with PBS and NPR.
Perhaps this partially explains the near absence of ACLU to the early iterations of the Patriot Acts and Sierra Club's metamorphosis from environmental advocate to ersatz travel agency. Hard to say. Once a loyal and enthusiastic supporter of them all, I now will have nothing to do with any of the lot. The checkbook is closed on this end, too.
and on it continues...
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